Resting in the shade and the stillness, Louie felt profound peace. When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him. He was not the worthless, broken, forsaken man that the Bird had striven to make of him. In a single, silent moment, his rage, his fear, his humiliation and helplessness, had fallen away. That morning, he believed, he was a new creation. (查看原文)
Louie saw none of it. He passed the deflated Lash, but it meant little to him. He was tired. The Finns were small and distant, much too far away to catch. He found himself thinking of Pete, and of something that he had said as they sat on their bed years earlier: A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go. (查看原文)
In the early days of 1943, as men died one after another, every man dealt with the losses in a different way. Somewhere along the way, a ritual sprang up. If a man didn't return, the others would open his foot-locker, take out his liquor, and have a drink in his honor. In a war without funerals, it was the best they could do. (查看原文)
作者: [美] 劳拉·希伦布兰德 副标题: 一个关于生存、抗争和救赎的二战故事 原作名: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption isbn: 7229043581 书名: 坚不可摧 页数: 398 译者:王祖宁 定价: 38.00元 出版社: 重庆出版社 出版年: 2011-8 装帧: 平装
